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next day, and all expressed their satisfaction at 

 Quillimane having emerged from its undeserved 

 neglect, and being at last linked to the line of 

 steamer communication with the rest of the 

 world. 



"This result, I am happy to say, has been 

 obtained by the enterprise of our countrymen, 

 and is especially due to Captain Travers, of the 

 SS. Natal, and Captain Garrett, of the SS. Kafir, 

 through whose enlightened representations the 

 Union Company's steamers now touch at Inham- 

 bane and Quillimane, Ibo, &c., to the great gain 

 before long, I trust, both to the new ports and 

 the Union Company. 



" A Malay priest was overturned from a canoe 

 in the river at Quillimane, and was immediately 

 bitten in two by a shark."" 



" We left Quillimane at two o'clock on the 3Oth 

 March, anchoring at Mozambique on the ist April. 



* We had a great many Malays on board, pilgrims on their way 

 to Mecca. Some were making their third pilgrimage, a much- 

 desired event, as I am told the pilgrim is then "elect," and no 

 matter what crimes he commits afterwards is still perfectly safe, 

 and a person, I should say, to be carefully avoided. 



